Institute of Child Development
College of Education and Human Development
Twin Cities
Award Year
2016
University Award
McKnight Land-Grant Professorship
No Monument Location
A Social Neuroscience Approach to Typical and Atypical Development
Jed Elison is advancing an interdisciplinary program of research, situated at the intersection of infant social cognition, the development of the social brain, and the emergence of clinically impairing behaviors during the toddler and preschool-age periods. Much of his work focuses on identifying neural biomarkers of autism prior to the overt manifestation of the disorder, a goal that will foster new approaches for strategic prevention of neurodevelopmental disorders.